Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Largest: The monstrous Cullinan, found in South Africa's Premier mine in 1907 by a worker who got $10,000 bonus. It was split up for King George's crown and sceptre...
...little occurrences of this sort which make a newspaper worker feel both proud and humble. Proud, to realize how earnestly folk in moments of stress turn toward the newspaper as a trustee of society; humble, to think how hard it is to live up to the responsibility thus imposed...
...Deal is not radical enough to suit U. S. radicals. To Communists the NRA appears as just one more capitalist plot to grind down the proletariat. To Socialists it seems like a bungling, inadequate attempt to apply government supervision to capitalism. But it does, they believe, offer workers "an exceptional opportunity to organize as a fighting force, not merely to wrest concessions from their 'partners,' the Government and the bosses, but to capture the former and to destroy the latter as a class." In New York City last week the Socialist Party was asked to cooperate...
Eleven years ago an orphan named Peter Christopolus was taken into Rev. Edward J. Flanagan's Boys' Home in Omaha, Neb., famed model institution. A good worker, 14-year-old Peter Christopolus was rewarded for his "model behavior" this summer by getting his picture printed in the Boys' Home magazine, in overalls like the other orphans. The picture came to the attention of one Jean Strengs, French-born proprietor of a Paterson, N. J. dye works. Dyer Strengs was struck by Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year...
Fathered by a bushy-haired, oldtime social worker named Charles Frederick Weller and a chubby little Hindu named Kedernath Das Gupta, the World Fellowship has for chairman famed Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, for honorary presidents Jane Addams and Herbert Hoover (who let his name be used "if anyone thought it would be of any help...